The Trident Deception Author: | Language: English | ISBN:
B00IEF8OT2 | Format: PDF
The Trident Deception Description
In this modern-day Hunt for Red October, an armed nuclear submarine is taken over and must be hunted down before its weapons are launched.
The USS Kentucky - a Trident ballistic missile submarine carrying a full complement of 192 nuclear warheads - sets out on a routine cruise. Not long after it reaches the open sea, however, the Kentucky receives a launch order. After receiving that launch order, it is cut off from all counter orders and disappears into the Pacific while it makes the eight-day transit to the launch site. What the Kentucky's crew doesn't know is that those launch orders didn't come from the US government.
Rogue elements within the Mossad have learned that Iran has developed its first nuclear weapon and, in ten days, will detonate it - and the target is Israel. The suspected weapon complex is too far underground for conventional weapons to harm it, and the only choice is a preemptive nuclear strike. With limited time, this rogue group initiates a long-planned operation called the Trident Deception: They'll transmit false orders and use a US nuclear submarine to launch the attack.
With only eight days before the Kentucky is in launch range and with the submarine cut off from any outside communication, one senior officer, the father of one of the officers aboard the submarine, must assemble and lead a team of attack submarines to find, intercept, and neutralize the Kentucky before it can unknowingly unleash a devastating nuclear attack.
- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 14 hours and 52 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
- Audible.com Release Date: March 4, 2014
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00IEF8OT2
I whizzed through THE TRIDENT DECEPTION in just a few days, even dispensing with TV in favor of this book for one evening! It was entertaining, exciting, realistic and entirely plausible.
Well-written with believable and reasonably well developed characters. Likable protaganists as well as some ancillary characters who struggled with personal beliefs of right and wrong. Even the bad guys generated, if not a tiny shred of sympathy, at least an understanding of what pushed them over the edge from reasonable response to utter madness.
Without going into plot details, the author paints an easy to imagine story which plays out like a movie in your brain. A very hard to put down book with enough twists, turns and mystery to keep you guessing. While, like most books of this sort, you know the basic inevitable outcome, there's still enough variation from the norm to make for both an enjoyable read and a satisfying ending.
As a plus, not a single profanity was uttered by any of the characters, proving that the English language is indeed capable of conveying the entire spectrum of human emotion without having to resort to vulgarities!
I'd give a hearty FIVE STARS to THE TRIDENT DECEPTION. Realistic characters; exciting, realistic naval action; well-written dialogue; numerous plot twists; and a satisfying ending make for excellent entertainment value!
By P. Eisenman
VINE VOICE
RIck Campbell, the author of "The Trident Deception", had to know going in that his book would draw comparisons with the work of the late Tom Clancy. The good news is, his work stands up to the comparison.
"The Trident Deception" is a complex, multi-layered tale of international intrigue and deception, replete with edge-of-the-seat thrills. The initial premise is a little bit of a reach, and occasionally the author resorts to expedient plot twists to keep the story moving, but the technical details are pretty authentic (though I spotted a few mistakes), and the story is engaging.
To be honest, I think part of the reason I liked this book as well as I did was out of a kind of nostalgia for those complex Clancy thrillers of the 1980s, but it compares well, and was an enjoyable techno-thrill-ride of a read.
By Gary K. McCormick
VINE VOICE
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